https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461828 User aorlovskyy@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461828#c1 Alexander Orlovskyy changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement --- Comment #1 from Alexander Orlovskyy 2009-01-09 03:14:01 MST --- Changing severity. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461828 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aschnell@novell.com AssignedTo|aschnell@novell.com |mschmidkunz@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

From Forum, some inexperienced folk, need in practice to guide the layout and reuse partitions, so demystifying it would help. The problem is though, nothing in the recent Windows world has educated them about PC partitioning. Some introduction to the concepts is needed, and an overview of process, rather

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461828 User rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461828#c3 --- Comment #3 from Robert Davies 2009-02-05 07:11:55 MST --- Point 1 - That's when configure a partitions filesystem in expert mode after choosing "Create" in "Partion based setup", having double clicked on the device after looking at disk or volume group to select it, the "Accept" button becomes "Finish" with Abort and Back as options, the From is entitled "Edit Partion /dev/hda5" with Format and Mount options available. I found it very unclear, how to apply those changes to the proposal and move to next issue. "Finish" was also commented on in the Forums independantly when they discussed the partitioner. When you don't know what's happening, it's very easy to get lost, you're really editting a proposal My attempt to clarify multiple issues was flawed. Point 0 - Clarity - Building a Proposal "When you are working within the installer, there should be a way to make it clear that you are just changing a proposal, that changes are only committed to disk later. That would allow for more relaxed working, and few mistakes as stressed users, tend to make more errors." This is important to for first timers. Point 2 & 3 than saying you should be an expert. Due to the popular confusion between partition, filesystem and drive; this would seem to be difficult to explain in a text explanation. I really wonder if web pages aren't a better hope. I think something early on like "No changes will be made to disk until you Apply your Proposal". Then a warning "Reminder : Applying an incorrect proposal may cause loss of data" might encourage checking. But for this kind of thing, many heads are probably better than one. Stefan Hundhammer used a blog article to get feedback http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/27/tabbed-browsing-for-packages-follow-u... Though he had useful graphics which focussed the discussion. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.